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Hi everyone. Christmas is for me the most important time of the year. I love the atmosphere. Listening to Christmas music, decoration, candles, lights, chocolate and biscuits. Christmas is a time were all the little things surrounding me make me very happy. J This is (I fear a German) recipe for gingerbread biscuits. My new housemates and I had a lot of fun baking last week. I hope you enjoy the biscuits as well. For all the English people, or more not Germans, I will try to make clear what the especially German ingredients are and maybe you can also get them on the internet. But before you start: Never do Christmas baking without Christmas music. You see I take Christmas very seriously! 😉

It is easiest to knead the dough on the working surface in your kitchen. Clean the surface and put some flour on it. You can also use a large bowl.

Now put the flour, sugar, nuts and cocoa powder onto the surface. In the middle of it you form a little mould. In it you put the eggs and the honey. The butter you distribute around the mould. Now add the spice and the baker’s ammonia. The potash has to be solved in cold water (but use as little water as possible) and added to the other ingredients.

Now knead the dough. This will take some time.

The dough then has to go into the fridge for a few hours or over night. But take the dough out of the fridge 2 hours before you want to use it.

Now take about a handful of dough and knead it again.

Now roll out the dough and use christmasy cutters to cut out the biscuits.

Put them onto a baking tray with baking parchment.

The remaining dough you can knead again, roll out, etc.

Put the biscuits in the oven for 15-20 minutes at about 200°C.

When they have cooled, you can decorate them.

Make icing by stirring icing sugar into the juice of 2-3 lemons until it is very thick.

You can now decorate your gingerbread cookies with icing and sprinkles in all variations.